Just like last year , Staten Island Chuck has once again predicted an early spring. Early this morning Mayor Bloomberg visited Chuck’s house at the zoo for the annual Groundhog Day ceremony, along with the PS22 Chorus , and a large crowd, according to the SI Advance … and not one of them saw a shadow. [ more › ]

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Staten Island Chuck Says Early Spring (Phil Says Six More Weeks Of Winter)

Last month it was revealed that the charity of a mystical rabbi to the stars spent $77,000 on a three-week rental in the Hamptons. Now, the Times reports that the followers of Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto were allegedly strong-armed into illegally donating over $500,000 to Staten Island Congressman Michael Grimm’s campaign fund. Ah, so that’s how mysticism works. [ more › ]

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Rep. Grimm Allegedly Took $500K In Mystical, Illegal Donations

First dates are tough: you don’t want the person to know that you actually spend all your time in the same dingy dive, but no matter what super scientific online dating surveys say, dropping $100 on dinner reeks of trying too hard. Museums show you’re cultured, but all the line-waiting and pretending to know about Kandinsky can get tiring. Movies: staid and boring (you’re both just sitting in the dark!), and concerts are fine if you don’t mind shouting over the bass. So what does New York City’s Bachelor-in-Chief think is the “best spot in NYC” for a first date? “The Staten Island Ferry!” In January? Poor Diana. [ more › ]

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Bloomberg’s Idea For A Perfect First Date? The Staten Island Ferry

                                        Perfectly located on the ground floor of a newish condo, right next to the new nail salon “FiNAILly” and across the street from the overpriced Millennium Market, you’ll find Fushimi, the gargantuan and batshit crazy Asian fusion restaurant that’s destined to totally blow late night yupster minds. Fushimi , which has two other locations on Staten Island and Bay Ridge, may remind some customers of that scene in Terry Gilliam’s “Fear and Loathing” adaptation where the bar at The Mint Hotel transforms into a “fucking reptile zoo, and somebody’s giving booze to these goddamn things.” But since we’re talking about Williamsburg in this Foul Year of Our Lord 2012, catering to boozy lizards seems like a shrewd business model, eh? Ready to sign in for your credentials? [ more › ]

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Inside The Psychedelic Fushimi, Williamsburg’s Wild New Fusion Restaurant

A pot bust on Wednesday in Manhattan gave the Post the chance to crack wise today: ” Pot vendor a ‘cereal’ dealer ,” the tabloid crows this morning. Why? Because the dealer in question wasn’t just selling bud—he was also allegedly selling pot Rice Krispies Treats —get it? ” I guess these guys wanted to take care of the high and the munchies all at once, ” a hilarious anonymous law enforcement source joked to the paper. [ more › ]

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Snap, Crackle, Pot: Police Say EV Dealer Sold Pot Krispie Treats

After a Staten Island teen died from injuries sustained when she stepped in front of a bus, her relatives said that relentless bullying from classmates at New Dorp High School drove her to suicide. But a source close to an investigation into Amanda Cummings’ death tells the Post , “No one had any previous signs of her being bullied.” [ more › ]

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Ladies of New York, finding a sensitive man just got easier, look no further than… Staten Island! According to a new survey conducted by Chemistry.com , the borough is the 10th most sensitive city in the United States (falling behind places like Pompano Beach, Florida and Buffalo, New York). The site explains that they used their “data based on the personality types of American singles… to pinpoint the cities with the highest concentrations of softhearted men—and you may be surprised by where these gallant gents are residing!” Why yes, color us surprised! [ more › ]

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Survey Says: Staten Island Men Are The Most Sensitive Men

Oh, Staten Island —why? In the latest unfortunate knife-y incident on Status Island we have two sisters who went and stabbed a mother and daughter in the breast and arm, respectively, over an iPod Touch. [ more › ]

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SI Sisters Stab Mom And Daughter Over "Stolen" iPod Touch

More details have emerged about the tragic incident at the New Dorp train station on Staten Island early Sunday morning. Yesterday we learned the identity of the drunk man rescued by Good Samaritan Steven Santiago—he is Jonathan Parisen, an independent filmmaker who was the first to make a dramatized film about 9/11. (Called Stairwell: Trapped in the World Trade Center , it was released in 2002 to mixed reception.) Now more details have emerged about how Parisen ended up down on the tracks, and how Santiago wound up in extremely critical condition after saving him. [ more › ]

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Drunk Filmmaker Rescued From SI Train Tracks Won’t Face Serious Charges

A Good Samaritan is in critical condition after getting hit by a Staten Island Railroad train while trying to help an inebriated man climb up out of the tracks early Sunday morning. Steven Santiago, 39, spotted the stupid drunk man on the tracks at New Dorp around 1:30 a.m. and decided his life was worth saving, so he climbed down to try to help. The intoxicated man had apparently gone down onto the tracks to retrieve his shoe, and then couldn’t get back up. MTA spokesman Kevin Ortiz tells the Staten Island Advance , “This good Samaritan apparently went down to assist him, and unfortunately was struck by a train.” [ more › ]

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Good Samaritan Hit By Train Trying To Help Drunk Off Train Tracks, Drunk Guy OK